Election 2024

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Biden's Exit Cost One Top Adviser a Lot of Money

Mike Donilon would have gotten a $4M bonus, on top of $4M salary, had Biden won in 2024

(Newser) - President Biden's exit from the 2024 race cost one of his top advisers the chance to earn a staggering payday. Mike Donilon told a House panel on Thursday that he would have collected a $4 million bonus had Biden won reelection, reports CNN . As it was, Donilon already was...

Colbert to Harris: Would You Like to Say I Told You So?

She says she didn't predict 'capitulation' to Trump

(Newser) - Kamala Harris appeared on the Late Show Thursday for the first time since her election loss to President Trump and Stephen Colbert asked her if there was something she'd like to say.
  • "You said he would prosecute his political enemies, he would cut Medicaid and Medicare," Colbert
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Kamala Harris Is Out With a Book in September

107 Days will give a behind-the-scenes look at her very brief presidential run

(Newser) - Former Vice President Kamala Harris will have a memoir out in September on her historic presidential run. The book is called 107 Days, the length of her abbreviated campaign, and will be published by Simon & Schuster on Sept. 23. "Just over a year ago, I launched my campaign...

Ellen DeGeneres: Yes, I Moved Because of Trump

'Everything is better here,' she says of England

(Newser) - Ellen DeGeneres has been living in the UK since November , and she is for the first time confirming speculation that it was her dislike of President Trump that sent her packing. Asked during a public appearance at a theater in Gloucestershire whether she and wife Portia de Rossi moved because...

Trump Accuses Celebs Who Backed Harris

President calls for 'major investigation' into money received

(Newser) - President Trump has been trading slams with Bruce Springsteen over the last week , and Trump raised the ante on Monday. In a Truth Social post, Trump called for a "major investigation" of Springsteen and other celebs such as Oprah Winfrey, Bono, and Beyonce who backed Kamala Harris in the...

Another Bombshell Is Out From Upcoming Biden Book

Authors claim then-president failed to recognize George Clooney at fundraiser

(Newser) - Another bombshell is out from the upcoming book about former President Biden by two reporters: They say the then-president attended a Hollywood fundraiser in June 2024 and didn't recognize George Clooney, a co-host of the event, despite the fact that he and the actor are longtime acquaintances and they...

Book: Biden's Team Covered Up His Startling Decline

Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson talk of a wheelchair, describe a cover-up to conceal the president's condition

(Newser) - Had former President Biden continued his 2024 run for the White House and won, as he believes he would've done , he may have been moving around the Oval Office in a wheelchair. According to a new book from CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios' Alex Thompson, Biden's advisers...

Last Election Race of 2024 Is Settled

Republican concedes in NC Supreme Court election

(Newser) - The Republican challenger for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat conceded last November's election on Wednesday to Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs, two days after a federal judge ruled that potentially thousands of disputed ballots challenged by Jefferson Griffin must remain in the final tally.
  • In a statement provided by
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The Top 10 Donors in the 2024 Election

Elon Musk tops OpenSecrets' list, with 5 others breaking the $100M mark

(Newser) - It's no secret that Elon Musk dumped millions of dollars into the 2024 campaign of President Trump and others, but now there's more of a peg on the total. OpenSecrets says the DOGE chief forked over more than $290 million to GOP candidates, PACs, and other outside spending...

Trump Campaign Manager Sues the Daily Beast

Chris LaCivita's not happy about stories about how much he was paid

(Newser) - The co-manager of President Trump's successful 2024 campaign sued the Daily Beast for defamation Monday over stories regarding how much he was paid for his work. The lawsuit on behalf of Chris LaCivita said the online publication's stories that he was paid $22 million over two years—later...

Iowa Review: 35 of 1.6M Voters in November Weren't Citizens

State finds small fraction of ballots cast were illegally cast

(Newser) - A review of Iowa's voter rolls found that 35 people who are not US citizens were among the more than 1.6 million Iowa voters who cast ballots in the 2024 general election. Secretary of State Paul Pate said Thursday that his office also identified 277 noncitizens who were...

CBS Wants Trump's $20B Lawsuit Tossed

Paramount lawyers call it an 'affront to the First Amendment'

(Newser) - CBS News' parent company is trying to get President Trump's $20 billion l awsuit against the network thrown out, arguing that it is an "affront to the First Amendment and is without basis in law or fact." Paramount filed two motions in the US District Court for...

Colorado Complex That Caught Trump's Attention to Close

As nominee, he'd promised to use 1798 law to carry out 'Operation Aurora' there

(Newser) - A Colorado apartment complex where armed members of a Venezuelan gang were caught on video entering a unit last summer is expected to close in about a month under an emergency court order, city officials said Monday. The city of Aurora had pursued a lawsuit to declare all but one...

Biden: Yes, I Think I Could Have Won
Biden:
I Think
I Could
Have Won
Jan 8, 2025 6:04 AM CST

Biden: I Think I Could Have Won

But president acknowledges to USA Today he's not sure if his health would have held out

(Newser) - President Biden has begun giving exit interviews ahead of his departure from the White House, and in one with Susan Page of USA Today , the president suggests he could have beaten Donald Trump had he stayed in the race.
  • "It's presumptuous to say that, but I think yes,
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Harris: 'Today, America's Democracy Stood'
'Today, America's
Democracy Stood'
Jan 6, 2025 4:45 PM CST

'Today, America's Democracy Stood'

Harris says she did her duty in certifying her own election defeat

(Newser) - "Democracy must be upheld by the people," Vice President Kamala Harris told NBC News before she oversaw the certification of President-elect Trump's election victory—and her election defeat. "Today I did what I have done my entire career, which is take seriously the oath that I...

Harris Certifies Trump Win in Less Than 30 Minutes

It's official

(Newser) - As in years past—with the notable exception of 2021—the official Electoral College vote count in a joint session of Congress on Monday was a routine and uneventful affair. There was a standing ovation from lawmakers when Vice President Kamala Harris confirmed President-elect Trump's election win, clearing the...

A Momentous Jan. 6 Dawns in Washington
A Momentous
Jan. 6 Dawns
in Washington
THE RUNDOWN
Jan 6, 2025 6:43 AM CST

A Momentous Jan. 6 Dawns in Washington

Kamala Harris will certify election of rival Donald Trump at US Capitol on Monday

(Newser) - As Congress prepares to convene during a winter storm on Monday to certify the election of Donald Trump, the AP makes note of one "extraordinary fact": that "the candidate who tried to overturn the previous election won this time and is legitimately returning to power." Four years...

You Know Who's Exhausted by Political News? Americans
Politics Coverage?
Americans Are Tuning Out
NEW POLL
Dec 26, 2024 3:20 PM CST

Politics Coverage? Americans Are Tuning Out

Two-thirds of Americans, largely Democrats, are stepping back from media consumption

(Newser) - As a Democrat who immersed himself in political news during the presidential campaign, Ziad Aunallah has much in common with many Americans since the election: He's tuned out. "People are mentally exhausted," says Aunallah, 45, of San Diego. "Everyone is ... just taking some time off."...

3 Democrat-Appointed Judges Make Rare Move Over Trump

They rescind retirement plans, sparking a warning from Mitch McConnell

(Newser) - One area of feverish activity in the transition from President Biden to President-elect Trump is federal judgeships, and the Washington Post reports on a new wrinkle. Three judges appointed by Democratic presidents have made the unusual decision to reverse their decisions to retire in the wake of Trump's election...

Trump: Shock Iowa Poll Was 'Election Interference'

President-elect sues Des Moines Register and pollster J. Ann Selzer

(Newser) - President-elect Trump won the November election, but that hasn't stopped him from suing over what he claims is "brazen election interference." Days after securing a hefty defamation settlement from ABC News, Trump has sued the Des Moines Register and its top pollster, alleging violations of the Iowa...

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